Prairie skywatchers have been on high alert the last few nights as spectacular aurora displays have made the night time skies come alive with colour.
And they’ve been keen to share their pictures of the event with us.
The light show comes courtesy of a coronal mass ejection (CME) by the Sun on November 11th that has caused a powerful geomagnetic storm.
Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado, have rated this storm a G3 or “severe,” with the potential to become a G4. The highest ranking is G5 and storms of that magnitude are considered, “extreme.”
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A G5 event recorded in May, 2024, was ranked the 18th most powerful on record according the SpaceWeatherLive.com. Tuesday’s event is ranked 39th.
“It was definitely the brightest and most visible red I have seen,” wrote Austin Robson in an email to The Western Producer. “I like to believe the unusually vibrant reds was to honour our veterans on Remembrance Day.”
Have you been watching the light show? Have you taken any photos you’d care to share?
Send your images to newsroom@producer.com in as large a file size as possible and we’ll share them here. Please include a little info, like where and when the image was taken, who took the pic and what it shows.
